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SUMMARY:July 2026 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our speaker will be beekeeper Nathalie B of Bee Mindful Honey Farms. \n \nWith close to 400 colonies and 15 years expertise in Beekeeping Education and Professional Beekeeping Services\,  Nathalie B. is an internationally recognized speaker and advocate for Treatment-Free\, sustainable beekeeping. She is best known for promoting Horizontal Top-Bar Hives as a simple\, affordable\, accessible\, and easy-to-manage option for backyard beekeepers.\nShe optimized and redesigned existing plans to create a global standard for Top-Bar Hive designs\, allowing cross-country interchangeability of hives and comb for suppliers and customers. \nShe invented the  Flex Hive\, an internationally acclaimed Langstroth-to-Top-Bar adapter\, which she was invited to present on at Apimondia 2025 in Copenhagen. \nA regular speaker at regional and national events\, she was recently invited as a keynote speaker for the Natural Beekeeping Summit and a three-week speaking tour in Australia. \nIn 2019\, she was invited by the Congolese government to design and lead the country’s training programs for the national trade schools\, and spent almost a year setting up teaching apiaries\, writing training manuals in French\, and setting up training for new beekeepers. \nPassionate about community outreach\, Nathalie has developed training programs and teaching apiaries for refugees in Congo\, Nigeria\, and Texas\, and launched multiple Youth Scholarship Programs\, donating dozens of horizontal hives in the process.\n\nAn Ohio State MBA graduate and Master Beekeeper with 15 years of experience managing all hive styles and nearly 400 colonies\, she is the Owner of Bee Mindful\, a full-service beekeeping business offering free plans\, comprehensive apprenticeships\, workshops in Natural beekeeping\, AG exemption services\, affordable\, practical horizontal hives and Treatment-Free bees. \nShe also serves and has served as President\, Vice President\, Chairman of the Board\, and Director in multiple Texas state-level beekeeper associations. \nOur meetings are held at our new Westside Provisions District meeting space (1170 Howell Mill Road\, Atlanta\, Georgia 30318; corner of Howell Mill Road and 14th Street). Park in the WSPD parking deck (validated parking)\, and follow the MABA signs. The new meeting space is a former restaurant space (Unit P10A) located on the ground-floor level of the building immediately next door to the Flower Child restaurant\, and directly across the street from Shake Shack.  MABA meets on the 2nd Monday of each month\, except September and December when we hold our annual fall honey show/pot luck and holiday party respectively. \n\n\n\n\nMeetings begin with a mentoring session at 6:30 p.m.\, followed by a featured speaker at 7 p.m. Topics range from the latest findings in honey bee research to hive management\, honey\, beeswax\, and other hive products. \n\n\n\nOn arrival\, check-in at the welcome table to be entered into our monthly door prize drawing. Enjoy snacks and fellowship in the back of the room. Membership is not required. Everyone interested in honey bees is welcome!
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